---
schema-version: v1.2.8
id: OASISDocBook-5.0
title:
- content: DocBook v5.0
  language:
  - en
  script:
  - Latn
  format: text/plain
  type: main
type: standard
docid:
- id: OASIS DocBook-5.0
  type: OASIS
  primary: true
docnumber: DocBook-5.0
date:
- type: issued
  value: '2009-11-01'
contributor:
- organization:
    name:
    - content: OASIS
    contact:
    - uri: https://www.oasis-open.org/
  role:
  - description:
    - content: Standards Development Organization
    type: authorizer
  - type: publisher
- organization:
    name:
    - content: OASIS DocBook TC
    contact:
    - uri: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/docbook
  role:
  - description:
    - content: Committee
    type: authorizer
language:
- en
script:
- Latn
abstract:
- content: |-
    DocBook is a general purpose [XML] schema particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications).
    The Version 5.0 release is a complete rewrite of DocBook in RELAX NG. The intent of this rewrite is to produce a schema that is true to the spirit of DocBook while simultaneously removing inconsistencies that have arisen as a natural consequence of DocBook’s long, slow evolution. The Technical Committee has taken this opportunity to simplify a number of content models and tighten constraints where RELAX NG makes that possible.
    The Technical Committee provides the DocBook 5.0 schema in other schema languages, including W3C XML Schema and an XML DTD, but the RELAX NG Schema is now the normative schema.
  language:
  - en
  script:
  - Latn
  format: text/plain
relation:
- type: hasPart
  bibitem:
    formattedref:
      content: OASIS DocBook-5.0-Pt
      format: text/plain
- type: hasPart
  bibitem:
    formattedref:
      content: OASIS DocBook-5.0-Errata01
      format: text/plain
doctype:
  type: standard
editorialgroup:
- name: OASIS DocBook TC
ext:
  schema-version: v1.0.1
technology_area:
- Content-Technologies